Trump’s Golden Dome: costly, unnecessary, with contracts for Palantir

 

President Trump trumpets his proposals for a defensive system against a missile attack using space weapons called “Golden Dome”. At the beginning of September, it entered its contractual phase in which it will provide a single flexible public procurement mechanism with a rapidly issued task order, not separately competing processes. The Golden Kupole returns to the old unsuccessful concept of Reagan Administration in the United States by means of space sensors and interceptors to detect and destroy foreign missile threats. It is said that it intensifies and multiplied by success that has accumulated a much smaller and more focused defense system for individual US military bases and vessels and the “Iron Dom” system in Israel, and spread it throughout North America.

Orders of Golden Dome, which are largely liberated from the competition, can go in favor of Trump’s suppliers, included high-tech billionaires who are his close allies.

The evidence accumulates that Golden Dome will be a hairy costly and extremely unnecessary system. It seems that the conclusion of the High-Tech TECH PALANTIE PACHESS PACHES, very well connected by billionaire Peter Thiel, long-time Trump-Backer and mentor vice president JD Vance.

Golden Dome played huge letters in Trump’s ideology during the campaign and sold a campaign. It gave Trump something seemingly fresh and strong about defense, something that seemingly connects him with the world of high-tech progress and had him condemned Biden’s administration for the seeming lack of courage. In this way, he presents himself as a proposing imaginative, innovative defense measure without having to face problems with the real world defense and difficulty, such as Russian invasion of Ukraine or Chinese efficiency in the Pacific.

In July a letter to Senator Edward J. Markey and nine other senators said:

“President Trump said Golden Dome would cost $ 175 billion and will be“ fully functional ”by 2029. But the Congress Budget Office (CBO) estimated that it could cost up to $ 542 billion to deploy a cosmic -based cosmic -based based based on space foundation that would start, such as North Kore. Slaughter. ”

At the beginning of September, the conservative US company institute (AEI), more cheerleader than a critic Trump’s, reported that the cost of Golden Dome can move up to $ 3.6 trillion. AEI has given a number of options from this tall character for a system that does what President Trump wants Golden Dome to do, except for lower numbers, that even if it is far over $ 175 billion, it would have much more limited capacity CO.

So now that the administration is launched when getting Golden Dome, the natural question is, who mines? Some of the contracts can go to traditional defense suppliers such as Lockheed Martin. The new characteristic feature of Trump’s administration, however, was the mutually beneficial cultivation of billionaires Silicon Valley. The beauty of Golden Dome is that it includes not only hardware from traditional suppliers, but technological products from the nearest new Trump friends.

As regards the role of government suppliers, Golden Dome brings to the forefront, especially Space-X, Elon Musk for the launching of space vehicles. It is not necessary to dwell the role that Elon Musk played at the beginning of the administration. In addition to the Space-X, President Trump and the executives with high-tech businesses cultivated relationships. Golden Dome is an ideal place to build such relationships.

The high-tech company that has been paid to take over the main role in the Golden Dome is Palantir. August exhibits a project on the government’s supervision “Golden Fever: Top Trump officials” of the custody of Silicon Valley “(hereinafter referred to as the“ Studies of Customements in Silicon Valley ”) explored the high positions in Trump’s administration of officials with Palant Connections.

On closer looking at Palant is Warranes. Peter Thiel is the co -founder and Chairman of the Board of Palant. The Forbes article said that:

“Palant (is) artificial intelligence and extraordinary supplier of the government chaired by Peter Thiel, the longest Trump’s large and mentor Silicon Valley for Vice President JD Vance and many others in prominent roles in the new administration.

Thiel’s background: produced the first billion in Pay-Pal; He made another luck on Facebook; Forbes determines its current value of $ 25 billion; And Palantant is one of its main current businesses that started for the CIA, which specializes in AI. Thiel is currently at the center of attention for being mentorized, financed and strengthened by Vice President of Vance. In short, Thiel employed Vance in his company in the area of ​​Risk Capital in Silicon Valley as soon as the Faculty of Law, helped Vance to launch his own risk capital company, introduced Trump’s Vance in Mar-A-Lago in 2021 and received Trump’s accompaniment for the Vance Senate and contributed a key Senate campaign of $ 15 million.

Thiel was a billionaire political activist, including large campaign contributions. In general, his philosophy is described as extremely conservative, although he would say libertarian. Thiel has had very important contributions to Trump over the years. Another co -founder and billionaire member of Palant’s Board, Joe Lonsdale, another Trump supporter, is described in the Forbes article: “Lonsdale and Thiel are among the big technological titans loudly in the transition of Silicon Valley to political law.” The role of Palantira in Golden Dome is therefore an opportunity for Thiel to take advantage of his political connection.

Another supplier of Silicon Valley, Andundil, is part of a common offer at the Golden Dome along with Space-X and Palantant. So it seems that Andundil is designed for a lucrative role in Golden Dome. The founder of billionaire Andundil, Palmer Luckey, is described as a prominent fundraiser for Trump. In his home, Fundraiser hosted with President Trump in 2020 and hosted another fundraiser in 2024.

The Silicon Valley Ties study published a later second version in which it reported the numbers showing the sale of stock options, repetitions, etc. and elaborated that it asked for these entities that had previously been published and provided information. The Silicon Valley Vaties study said that “these beginnings of powerful government officials and top contractual companies, in the middle of a wider effort to weaken ethical restrictions, are leading criticisms such as Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to express conflicts of interests that have the potential to impact the government’s decisions that affect billions of taxes.”

Studies in Silicon Valley continued and quoted Senator Warren: “The loyalty of defensive officials should be against our national security, not lining their own pockets … I have been an alarm for potential corruption related to the Golden Cup and these conflicts between them have been used to enirize Trump’s administration officials.”

Although it may not be necessary to look so far into the future, JD Vance is obviously on board for 2028. Golden dome could be a tribute cow for Vance via Palantir and Thiel.